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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced DVD and Blu-ray releases

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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced DVD ($28.96) and Blu-ray ($34.95) releases of The Social Network for January 11th. Extras on the DVD will include a commentary with director David Fincher, and a second commentary with Writer Aaron Sorkin & The Cast. The Blu-ray release will include the commentaries, along with a feature length documentary ("How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?"), featurettes ("Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter and Ren Klyce on Post", "Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and David Fincher on the Score", "In the Hall of the Mountain King: Reznor's First Draft", "Swarmatron", "Jeff Cronenweth and David Fincher on the Visuals"), and a Ruby Skye VIP Room: Multi-Angle Scene Breakdown feature. Artwork is attached:

Synopsis

Quote: David Fincher’s The Social Network is the stunning tale of a new breed of cultural insurgent: a punk genius who sparked a revolution and changed the face of human interaction for a generation, and perhaps forever. Shot through with emotional brutality and unexpected humor, this superbly crafted film chronicles the formation of Facebook and the battles over ownership that followed upon the website’s unfathomable success. With a complex, incisive screenplay by Aaron Sorkin and a brilliant cast including Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake, The Social Network bears witness to the birth of an idea that rewove the fabric of society even as it unraveled the friendship of its creators.

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15th December 2010 12:41#1

Yesss! I'm so excited for this movie! One of my favorite films of the year. I'm just confused as to why the DVD is getting a 2-disc "collector's" edition and yet the article only lists it as having 2 commentaries. I don't understand why a 2nd disc is necessary for that...

15th December 2010 12:57#2

I know this wasn't as groundbreaking as Inception but the familiarity of the story allowed me to care more about the characters, or atleast what they were doing and the reasons why, which gave this the slighter advantage. Indeed, best film of the year.

15th December 2010 13:59#6

The Social Network is my 2nd favorite movie of this year and it deserves that spot. Top notch in every department. My friends hated it. They said there was too much "talking" and that "we already know what happens". Sucks for them that they didn't get what this movie was trying to say.

However, Black Swan is still my favorite movie of this year. I really want DVDActive to announce that one.

15th December 2010 14:06#7

liono86 wrote: I dunno. I just couldn't bring myself to watch a film about the creators of facebook. Yes, I have a facebook page, but do I care who created it? No.

Do you want to know about the mentality that drives you and millions of people to put your life on the Internet? I also don't give a damn about the guys who created Facebook or Twitter but the movie is mostly about what our interactions are in the Internet age, using a guy who had limited social skills but great intuitions as a middleman.

15th December 2010 14:34#8

WTF...No Combo Pack? Anyway, I thought this was a great movie, but it was one of those movies that I had to just see at a theater. It is very interesting to show a movie about the creator of Facebook, but it's not something I can just watch over and over again. Although this definitely needs to win some awards.

15th December 2010 14:44#9

Oh, thank god. Now that's artwork I can support. Last thing I want in my collection is the dead eye stare of Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg looking me in the face whenever I want to watch this movie.

15th December 2010 14:45#10

liono86 wrote: I dunno. I just couldn't bring myself to watch a film about the creators of facebook. Yes, I have a facebook page, but do I care who created it? No.

Co-sign this comment. I don't have a Facebook page, nor do I ever plan on getting one. I'm about as anti-social as they come. By starting Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and his cronies created a cyber Pandora's Box where too many people are airing out too much of their personal business on the internet and getting cyber-bullied. Hell, the government is even using Facebook to track criminals and terrorists, so who's to say they aren't using it to track everyone else?? As far as I'm concerned, Facebook is Cyber-Hell and Zuckerberg is Cyber-Lucifer. I already know about the "pros" to being on Facebook, like using it tracking down lost friends and relatives and all that good stuff. But to me, the bad still trumps the good. Just can't get with this whole social networking business. Not Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, none of it. It's cyber-paradise for all the attention w***es out there, but not me. Just my personal opinion...

Now having said all that, maybe I'll still give the movie a shot on Blu-ray...

15th December 2010 15:32#12

Terribly overrated movie about a bunch of conceited, uber-privileged nerds with rich parents who bought them anything and everything they wanted when they were little who backstab one another to get ahead. Who gives a c**p about that?

15th December 2010 18:20#17

Some of you guys must have sight problems but how can the cover art be ANY good? o_O

The girl to the far left looks as if shes about to bite off the kids ear with those bucked teeth and on top of that the supposedly MAIN character (Mark) is slightly covered by the critic quotations. He could have easily been placed farther left. Terrible cover concept. Not to mention the Columbia and Blu-ray or DVD logo are missing from the spine.

15th December 2010 18:24#18

I like the artwork. It stays close to the poster format which I liked. I don't really understand the mentality some people have where they dismiss this as "a facebook movie" and won't watch it. Especially people who consider themselves film fanatics. If you can get yourself over the subject matter, this movie is a powerhouse of stunning performances and technical mastery. Then there is Reznor's score which is awesome beyond words. I could really go on forever, but the point is that if you are a true fan of cinema, you owe it to yourself to watch this sublimely crafted movie instead of dismissing it based on your own qualms with Facebook. It is kind of ironic really, since the movie has no affiliation with Facebook or Mark Zuckerberg, and doesn't glorify either of them.

15th December 2010 19:09#20

with this being a fincher movie...does anyone know if a directors cut is on the horizon as well??? if memory serves me...didn't zodiac have a directors cut like a couple of months after the initial theatrical dvd release???

15th December 2010 22:58#24

Excellent excellent film. Andrew Garfield is one to watch, he was just so good in this. And the score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross is hauntingly beautiful, one of my favourites of the year. Can't wait to pick this up when it's announced R2.

16th December 2010 2:00#28

I know I'm being anal here, but...when they decided that the guy behind Eisenberg didn't belong on the blu-ray version (an already completely arbitrary decision), could they at least have gotten a guy to remove him who had even a rudimentary knowledge of how to use the clone / healing brush tools in Photoshop? I mean, the color doesn't even match. There's this ugly purplish blob right in the center because of it...and they still failed to erase some of the guy's neckline to add insult to the injury. Seriously, I don't usually point out things like this, but...wow...

16th December 2010 8:01#30

As someone already mentioned, I am in 2 minds about buying this as it is a David Fincher movie and the man loves his special edition DVDs! That, coupled with the feeling that The Social Network could sweep the Oscars means that I will hold of buying this for a couple of months to see if there is another release.

Still, the disc does seem to have some interesting special features, so it's up in the air as to whether there will be a more loaded disc.

The movie itself was excellent and my second favourite this year, behind Inception. It's amazing how the makers created such a rivetting movie on a subject that really doesn't sound exciting. Great movie in every department.

In non-related news, I am also excited by the fact that Criterion has bought the home video rights to The Game. Finally, the one movie that didn't get the "Fincher" DVD treatment will get some justice!

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